Re: Telstra NextG tethering does work already
Hi Susan, On 19/06/2009, at 5:01 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Hi, I have been able to get tethering working for Telstra NextG with the aid of a little config file downloaded from the discussion forum on Whirlpool - so even if Telstra is slow off the mark, it isn't because it can't be done. Now, I'm not going to use it because of the expense. cheers, Susan. Can you post the details here on how you did it? Regards, Paul. If swimming is good for your shape, then why do whales look the way they do? -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments pmulro...@logicaldevelopments.com.au 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone problems !!
Hi On 21/05/2009, at 5:00 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Subject: Re: iPhone problems !! From: Pontifex Family ponti...@iinet.net.au Message-ID: c639c905.e40a%ponti...@iinet.net.au In-Reply-To: list-478...@wamug.org.au Hi folks, I am interested to know if anyone else has had iPhone problems ? snip Am I just very unlucky or do they fault more than I am being told ? I was number 34 in line on the day they were released. I have mine in a DLO case, and haven't had a problem with it since - once Telstra could sort out the account. They hadn't counted on the number of people who wanted one, and their computer systems melted down. My son has an iPhone too. He had a fault with his where the earphone socket didn't register sometimes. I think it was because it was in his pocket all the time, and the humidity caused the problem. He didn't have it in a case at the time. It was replaced, and he keeps the new one in a case, and it's been going fine ever since. Regards, Paul. I don't play golf. Personally, I think there's something psychologically wrong with any game in which the person who gets to hit the ball the most is the loser. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments pmulro...@logicaldevelopments.com.au 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple equivalent of Putty ?
Hi Steven, On 27/03/2009, at 5:01 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I'm trying help an IT guy, a Windows guy, do some testing of speeds when it comes to me accessing a particular server. To do whatever he needs me to do, something to with ssh connections, and something about needing to redirect local ports to server, he would use Putty in the Windows world. I tried to do what he needed me to do with Apple's Terminal application, but it didn't seem t work. I know this is all fairly vague, but can anyone suggest what application I need? Should Terminal be able to do what Putty can do, or do I need something else? puTTY is a GUI for ssh on windows. If you want to do SSH with port redirection, this is the command I use in Terminal: ssh -C -L port1:server1:port2 usern...@server2 To explain: -C - use compression. The data is compressed on the fly when being transmitted. -L - use local port redirection. In this scenario: port1 = the port on your machine that you want it directed to server1 = the name or IP address of the machine you want to come from. This is usually the internal IP address. port2 = the port on the machine you want to come from username - the account name you're logging in as on the machine server2 - the name or IP address of the machine you're connecting to. This is usually the external IP address. server1 and server2 don't have to be same address. In my situation, server2 is the external IP address of the server I want to connect to, and server1 is the internal IP address I want to connect to. By external I mean a public IP address that can be accessed outside the local area network. For example, I have an ADSL modem and it has a web interface. I can't connect to that remotely because it won't allow me for security reasons. However, I can use SSH from a remote site, to connect to a server behind my adsl modem (internal address 192.168.1.254) and get it to forward the web traffic (port 80) to my remote setup. In this case: sudo ssh -C -L 80:192.168.1.254:80 u...@externalipaddress (note: ports below 1024 require root access, so you can use sudo to run the command with root privileges. If you don't use sudo you get the error Privileged ports can only be forwarded by root.) Example 2: I use VNC to connect to client's servers and view their system remotely. VNC uses port 5901 for display #1. The internal IP address of the machine I want to access is 192.168.1.100 ssh -C -L 5901:192.168.1.100:5901 u...@externalipaddress Hope this helps. Regards, Paul. Why is the word abbreviation so long? -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments pmulro...@logicaldevelopments.com.au 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Final Cut Express - looking for help
Hi Everyone, I have a client who is wanting some tuition with Final Cut Express. He is new to Macs, and is wanting to use the Mac for video editing in his practice. Does anyone have any experience with FCE, who is willing to spend some time teaching him? Alternatively, does anyone know of training materials that I can recommend to him? Someone has already suggested lynda.com, which is an online training site. Thanks in advance, Paul. I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called Brightness, but it doesn't work. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments pmulro...@logicaldevelopments.com.au 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone car kit
Hi I use a bluetooth earpiece when driving, because although the iPhone has a hands free speakerphone mode, it's not really loud enough for the car. Adrian, I don't think it's possible to attach an external aerial to the iPhone, so you're out of luck on that front. However, you should still be able to use bluetooth with you iPhone without any problems. For charging, you need something like the Griffin car accessories for the iPhone - it comes with a car charger adaptor. Regards, Paul. On 11/03/2009, at 5:01 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Why do you need bluetooth when the iPhone already has hands free ? On 10/03/2009, at 1:30 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: My issue is that the coverage is increased via the car's high gain aerial which is part of the kit I had installed and the kit also keeps the phone charged, I talk on it via bluetooth which is integrated with the car audio system. Installing the kit cost a small fortune so I would like to keep using it especially when we take the 10,000 KM. drive over east every year. A little boy in church for the first time watched as the ushers passed around the offering bag. When they came near his pew, the boy said loudly Don't pay for me, Daddy. I'm under five. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments pmulro...@logicaldevelopments.com.au 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Lost/Stolen: White 16Gb iPhone
Hi Everyone, My son has lost his white 16Gb iPhone at Hoyts in Carousel. When he discovered he had lost it, he went back and searched the cinema with staff, and couldn't find it. If you happen to see a white iPhone on ebay or wherever going cheap, can you check the serial number? It's 88827UJN1R4 BTW, can we disable the phone remotely? It'd be good to brick the phone if possible ... Thanks in advance, Paul. This office will close on Tuesday 23 December at 4.00pm and will open again on Monday 5 January 2009 at 8.00am WST. We wish you a happy festive season -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments pmulro...@logicaldevelopments.com.au 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone question or clarification
Hi there On 23/07/2008, at 5:01 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: My understanding is that if I take my iPhone down to my favourite cafe, which has a free wireless hotspot (that I use often with my laptop), I can connect and browse etc. for free. I am reading in today's Australian that this is not the case. Can anyone clarify this for me I haven't seen the article in the paper, but the Telstra salesperson said to me that all traffic was chargeable, even wifi traffic. I rang a networking guru who said that he believed this was highly unlikely. I have my iPhone connected to my wifi connection, and have downloaded heaps of stuff, which doesn't count toward the NextG data as far as I can see. Regards, Paul. What was the best thing before sliced bread? -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Who is getting an iPhone tomorrow?
Hi Everyone, On 10/07/2008, at 9:25 PM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Just for a bit of fun, it would be interesting to know if any wamuggers are going to get an iPhone tomorrow? Or will you wait and see when there are decent levels of stock available. I think there will only be a handful of iPhones available here tomorrow, with more in the next few weeks. Nothing like a bit of sold so fast publicity to keep the hype going ;-) We braved the crowds, and queued from 7am at the Telstra shop in Morely. I reckon there was about 100 there with us - we were number 32 and 33 in line. Finally got the iPhone at 10am, and there was still a crowd in line as we left. Regards, Paul. I don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to eject/insert CD
On 04/05/2008, at 5:00 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I am still hopeful that someone on the list will be able to assist rectifying my problem ie. 1. rectifying the CD problem. 2. getting rid of the Menu bar eject icon To get rid of the eject icon, Hold down the command (apple) key and drag the icon off the menu bar. It should disappear with a puff of smoke. Holding down the command key allows you to rearrange the order of the icons in the menu bar too. Regards, Paul. When all you have is a hammer, all problems start looking like your fingers. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G4 iBook Battery?
Hi Andrew, I bought one from the eastern states: http://www.battery-charger.com.au/laptop_battery/apple/index.htm It took a week to come over. Regards, Paul. On 16/11/2007, at 5:03 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Subject: G4 iBook Battery? From: Andrew Schox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I have need of a battery for a G4 iBook. Digilife have ordered one for me, but it might take up to several weeks to arrive. Does anybody know where I might get one quicker than that (either new or second hand)? Thanks, Andrew Did you hear about the delivery van loaded with thesauruses that crashed into a bus? Witnesses were shocked, astounded, surprised, taken aback, dumbfounded, thunderstruck, started, caught unaware ... -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
iTunes keeps starting by itself
Hi Everyone, This is a weird one. I've got iTunes 7.0.2 running on my iBook, OSX 10.4.8, and I've noticed recently that iTunes is just starting up automatically. I'll quit iTunes, and then a few minutes later it starts again by itself. Has anyone seen this happening? Any ideas about how to stop it? Regards, Paul. I don't believe for a second that weight lifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. I call that indecision. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Re: iTunes keeps starting by itself
Hi Ronni, On 31/01/2007, at 8:29 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 31/01/2007, at 7:58 AM, Paul Mulroney wrote: This is a weird one. I've got iTunes 7.0.2 running on my iBook, OSX 10.4.8, and I've noticed recently that iTunes is just starting up automatically. I'll quit iTunes, and then a few minutes later it starts again by itself. Do you have any iTunes related Widget running, (iTunes and iTunes Artwork) if so disable them and watch if the problem disappears. . Are you actually quitting iTunes by going to the iTunes Menu Quit iTunes or by the keyboard (Command+Q)? Thanks for your quick reply. I've got the Harmony widget, which automatically downloads lyrics to the currently playing song in iTunes, and the iTunes widget, currently running. I'll try removing those and see if that helps. It's probably one of those that's causing the problems. I'm definitely quitting out of iTunes, using Command-Q, and verifying that the little triangle under the app on the dock has gone away. Thanks for your help, Paul. Did you hear about the cowboy who got himself a dachshund? Everyone kept telling him to get a long, little doggie. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Re: Logitech webcams?
Hi everyone On 02/01/2007, at 6:06 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I checked all the documentation and the web site and I don't see that logitech webcams work with Mac OSX computers--however I visited 2 apple stores here in Miami and the staff claim they do. I am reluctant to make a purchase if I can't find the driver for Mac on the Logitech web site. Anyone have any ideas whether these products work with Macs? I bought a Logitech QuickCam Express web cam, and purchased the iChatUSBcam driver, which works fine with iChatAV. I also downloaded the maccam driver from the sourceforge website. With that, I can use the camera in any quicktime-enabled app. Hope this helps, Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Blowing up a G4
Dude asks for $5000. Internet responds. Dude rewards by blowing up his computer. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eQQTFSbjM0 and the original website http://helpmegetag5.com/ Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Intel Mac Clip surprise ending
Now that you can boot Windows XP on your Mac, imagine the possibilities ... (Wait for the surprise ending) http://youtube.com/watch?v=RwHMIxdDdu8 :) Paul -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Re: Hardware VPN's
Hi Matt, On 15/03/2006, at 5:04 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I am currently looking for an inexpensive hardware based (remote access) VPN. I am currently comparing a SonicWALL TZ150 and a NetGear FVS124G. The NetGear is obviously cheaper (by about half) but I am wondering if that comes at a significant cost in other areas. Does anyone here have any recommendations? I've used Billion ADSL modems to do VPNs. The latest one is a BIPAC-7402. I spoke with a networking guru who does this sort of thing all the time, and basically you get what you pay for. The Billions I've used have worked fairly well, with only the occasional dropout that is possibly because of the ISP and not the hardware. They have a web interface, and the firmware gets updated periodically. If you want to spend $$$ buy Cisco gear to do your VPN and get 99.99% uptime. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Wanted: slot-loading drive to suit iMac DV
Hi Everyone, The slot-loading DVD drive in my friend's iMac DV is dying by degrees - it struggles to load and eject CD's/DVD's. I've managed to pull the machine apart, and clean the little rollers inside the drive, but it hasn't helped. So, I'm looking for a replacement drive mechanism. Does anyone have one for sale? Alternatively, anyone out there with a dead slot- loading iMac that they would be prepared to sell/donate for parts? Please email off the list. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Re: iPod/Mac computers
Dear Natas, I am an Omnis Developer. Let me say that not all Omnis developers will concur with Malcolm's Omnis developer opinions, and I for one would not like to be put on anyone's shitlist. I have met with Tess Collins, who is the head of developer relations at Apple Australia, a number of times to see how Apple can help my software company get it's products into the Mac marketplace. If you have a product, they will help with the promotion of that product through their Apple channels. If it is in one of their areas of interest, then they are prepared to put effort into integrating the product into their marketing strategies. In all my dealings with Tess, I've found that she is genuinely interested in supporting developers who are writing for the Mac platform. We are certainly going to keep in touch with Tess as our new products are announced. Products that are created using Omnis are usually in very narrow vertical markets, perhaps this particular Omnis developer has not found the assistance they need in getting their product to market. Regards, Paul. note to self put omnis developers on shitlist my view is that she has probably had very little to do with Apple or its developers so perhaps she could qualify such statements with some cold hard facts - 2 cents Natas On 02/02/2006, at 5:40 PM, McCallum Malcolm wrote: I was talking to a Omnis developer today and she was scathing about Apple and it's support for developers. She said that unless it is to do with the iPod 'Steve' is not interested. I got the impression that very little of the massive income from iPod sales is going into the computer side of the business. What are the views of the members of Wamug? Mac -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Re: The horrors of Ethernet cables
Hi Everyone, I've created my own cables over time with only a few failures. A friend of mine used to work in the cabling business, says that there are two types of cable: solid core and stranded core. The RJ45 connectors are designed for a specific type of cable, so if you get the crimps for solid core cable but you're using stranded cable or visa versa, then your connection will most likely fail. Also, the wiring is not straight through - there's a sequence to follow for both ends. I've done it so much now it's like a mantra in my head - green/stripe green, orange/stripe blue, blue/strip orange, brown/stripe brown. I don't remember what the crossover sequence is. I've also found that if you don't put enough pressure on the crimp, it might not be making a proper connection. If the lead doesn't work, I try putting the connector back into the crimping tool and trying to make the connection again. Hope this helps, Paul. On 24/01/2006, at 5:04 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: For a different story - I borrowed a professional crimping tool, made 4 cables plus one cross over no problems and all still working fine 2 years later. All up cost $20. On 23/01/2006, at 11:38 PM, Peter Bull wrote: Hi all, So I purchased 15 metres of cable and a packet of RJ45 connectors, borrowed a crimping tool and wiring diagram and set to work. After using 10 connectors (3 cables equals 6 connectors : - ) and not having one cable that worked, I got on the net for some tips. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Re: ADSL modem
Hi Kevin, On 23/09/2005, at 5:04 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: They have supplied him with a 'Billion' USB modem and I have loaded the software for the modem, but cannot see how to change the mode of connection from Ethernet to USB connection. Anyone direct me on doing this or are Macs not USB compatible? Have you got the model number? There are a number of Billion ADSL modems. I've used a few, and they're usually very good. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Re: iPod shuffle registration issue
Hi Mark, On 22/07/2005, at 5:04 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I plugged it in to my mac at work and transferred some songs to it from my iTunes library then later today when I got home I then plugged it in to my home mac and got told that this iPod wasn't registered with this computer and that I had the option reregistering it with the my home computer which would erase all music files or not registering it (cancel option) I selected cancel and though the shuffle mounted on the desktop iTunes would not recognise it. snip So basically my question is - is this registration issue a feature of the shuffle or of ACC files? Mine does the same - I just assumed that's how it worked... I just have one iTunes music collection on one machine, but I use my Shuffle to transfer files around to other Macs, and that message pops up often. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
10.4.2 and Windows security
Hi Everyone, I ran the software update the other day to 10.4.2, and now it seems that I can't connect to my clients Windows network. The update notes say that there were improvements in the windows networking. Has anyone else had problems connecting to Windows networks, or is it just me? Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Re: Question regarding what type of database to use
Hi Rod, On 05/06/2005, at 5:04 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: And rather than keeping all our eggs in one basket (and only having one person in the business that can competently use MYOB), we decided to look at a separate system for repair logging, and other small tasks. At least we can customise the new program the way we want it! And my experience with Multi-user MYOB is that for more than 1 user, forget any sort of performance. It really bogs down the whole network. At least two clients have reported the same sorts of network speed issues when they went to multi-user and MYOB. I use Omnis Studio all the time. The upside is the speed of development, cross-platform independance (Macs/Windows/Linux) and the like. The downside is the cost, a basic developer license is about $350, and runtimes aren't much different in price. However, that's still a lot cheaper than 4D or others. I've built and deployed apps on all three platforms, with multi-user systems, and even web interfaces to some systems. I taught myself PHP, and created a fairly complex job time-keeping app, but you'd have to know what you're doing. I made lots of mistakes developing, and debugging was a pain. It has half-dozen tables, and the web interface is very basic, but I track all the hours for my business using it. It generates reports with filters and meets our basic needs. The plus is that PHP and MySQL are installed on every OSX box, and tools like PhpMyAdmin make the SQL side easier to handle. I've also purchased RealBasic, and I'm looking into using it for small apps using it's RealDB engine, but so far it seems harder to write database apps in RealBasic than it does in Studio. I think there's a lot more extra stuff you have to do in RealBasic to make it work - but maybe it's just my familiarity with the other environment... That being said, I've started writing Pacman in RealBasic, and my sons have been doing the artwork (if anyone's interested, email me:). I have a basic working game, just got to iron out the quirks. Out of the three environments, I think Studio's the best for database apps, especially cross-platform. The runtime tax is really the only downside. PHP is a possibility (and free!), but only if you know SQL, and some HTML. RealBasic has promise, but nothing solid yet. HTH, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 2169
Re: Windows to OSX networking
Hi Everyone, I'm stumped! I know I have done this before but I cant seem to do it now :( OSX can see two win2000 boxes but not the reverse. Just thought I should add that the PCs can actually see the Mac's web page at http://192.168.1.2/ when Personal Web Sharing is on. Could that suggest its an authentication issue? I have had success where Windows voodoo is apparent by using the shareware app Sharepoint to configure the SMB details on the Mac side. Allows the creation of custom shares as well. Also restores OS9 style appleshares. Great App. Rob There are some issues with file sharing to windows boxes with 10.2, not sure about 10.3. Check out this link for debugging connections: http://homepage.mac.com/william_white/smbdoc.html One of the perls of wisdom - from the terminal on the OSX box type: smbclient -NL 127.0.0.1, which will list all the windows resources that the OSX box is making available. Very cool. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
iPod Shuffle RAID
Hi All, So, what do you do when you and some friends are all getting iPod Shuffles? You make a RAID array out of them, of course! Follow along as we explore new depths of geekery... http://www.wrightthisway.com/Articles/000154.html Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
iPod shuffles in Perth
Hi Everyone, I was looking for an iPod shuffle in Perth, had some problems finding them. Digilife in MtHawthorn were out, same with NextByte in Nedlands. However, Winthrop in UWA have a dozen in stock. So, if you're looking and can't find any, try there. I spoke to Cameron (9380 2621). Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Creating SVCD with Toast 6
Hi Yvonne Thanks for your suggestions. I'm not using the mode where you go direct from the camera. However, if you click on the play button in the toast window before burning it, it's all OK - the audio and video are in sync the whole length of the movie (about 30 minutes). I'm also trying to create a SVCD, which is different to a DVD - different encoding formats. I suspect the problem is in the audio encoding. I think there's two different possible sample rates: 44 kHz and 48 kHz. I reckon that toast is assuming the wrong sample rate and as a result there's more samples than video... Regards, Paul. On 11/01/2005, at 5:04 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Is the lag while moving to toast or in the finished disc? When i was using toast 6 loading the movie direct from camera I noticed that the sound track appeared to get out of sync while it was copying into toast .. by the end of the 40 minutes it was almost a minute behind [ I could hear the puter and camera plays] but when it produced the final DVD the sound was spot on. Yvonne On Monday, January 10, 2005, at 09:13 AM, Paul Mulroney wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm trying to create a SVCD from iMovie using Toast 6. According to the manual, I can drag and drop the reference movie of iMovie into toast, and it will create the SVCD. However, with the resulting disk, the video and audio get out of sync very quickly. I've been able to burn using Toast 5 but I don't own a legit copy of this, and besides it can only do VCD's. I've been able to create the SVCD (and it works!) using MMT-EZ (Thanks Peter Hinchcliffe to your excellent demo of this at one of last year's meetings), but this doesn't do things like menus. I've emailed Roxio support, but their responses to date are a bit of a non-answer. Has anyone else tried to burn VCD's/SVCD's using Toast 6? All help greatly appreciated. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Creating SVCD with Toast 6
Hi Paul, Thanks for your response. On 11/01/2005, at 5:04 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Has anyone else tried to burn VCD's/SVCD's using Toast 6? All help greatly appreciated. Yes and I didnt have too much success. VCD Builder has been slightly easier, it ultimately uses Toast to burn the job anyway. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15509 I wanted to use the menu options in toast. So far nothing else can do them. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Digest Number 1372
Hi There, On Monday, September 6, 2004, at 06:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I've a new DV Camera I'm trying to transfer the finished edit to a DVD (external) in a format that will play back on a fairly new DVD player. I don't have IDVD, running 9.2 on a G4 400. Quick time doesn't do the conversion? What do I need to do to have it play on a home DVD player? Any help much appreciated, Strangely enough, I'm just doing that myself. I'm using Mac OSX, but I think it should still work the same for you in OS9. - Basically, I'm using iMovie to setup the movie, then using Toast 6 to create a Video CD (VCD for short). - Launch Toast, select the Video tab on the main window. - Locate the Movie file in the top level of the project folder and drag this into Toast. - Fill in any extra details you want, then click on the Record button. It takes a while to encode - for my iMac G4 800, about 2 x length of the project. I'm getting about 1.25 hrs on the CD in this format. It plays fine on my akai DVD player. YMMV, Regards, Paul. BTW, Ken, your message came through on the old Yahoogroups email address. You might want to check out the new mailing list details. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Tech help needed for Mailman, qmail
Hi Everyone, Not sure where to ask for this question, and I know there's a few techie types who are on this list, so here goes: I am trying to setup Mailman under 10.3, and want to use qmail for the MTA. As far as I can tell, qmail is working, because the logs show me when I'm receiving mail etc, and I think Mailman is working because I can access it from the web. However, when I email a request to Mailman, nothing happens. I've tried looking through the Mailman mailing list archives, and not had much success. Does anyone know anyone who can help me out here? Please reply off the list. There used to be a Mac Geeks mailing list, but I've lost the details about it. Does it still exist? Thanks in advance, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Openoffice
On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, at 05:07 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Morning All, Looking for Openoffice 1.1.2 download, available on wamug server, if so url? Thanks Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/openoffice/stable/ For OSX, its in the Contribs, but if you attempt to download it you get an error. The file to download is http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/openoffice/contrib/MacOSX/ oo112_osx_final.dmg.bz2 Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Old computers
Hi Reg, On Monday, June 21, 2004, at 05:06 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Paul On 20 Jun 2004, at 3:42pm, Paul Mulroney wrote: Well, it was truly dead - no hard drive, no ram, no floppy disk, no backup battery, and I don't think it actually chimed on power on either. My SE/30 is dead too (won't power on - probably the analog board), but I'm keeping that one :) I've still got mine in a cupboard. Sadly it now shows sad mac face and I can't locate system disks for it. OS 6.0.8 I think? Or is it faulty HDD / battery too? I've got the system 6.0.8 disks here. The problem with the hard drives in the older machines is that they tend to dry out and lose the lubrication in the drive mechanism. Drives that have been sitting around idle a long time tend not to fire up. I can still remember an old Mac Plus with an external drive where I used to push start the drive - I had removed the lid of the hard disk, and gave the spindle a nudge to make it spin up every time I wanted to use the machine. That hard drive worked for at least 12 months after that...bet you couldn't do that today :) If the battery was flat, the worst case is that it takes longer to startup. Unless it was an LC II LC III or LC475, and then they wouldn't startup because the monitor settings were held in RAM by the backup battery. With those, you usually had to reboot them to make them go. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Old computers
Hi Reg, On Sunday, June 20, 2004, at 05:07 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Yikes Paul On 19 Jun 2004, at 7:29pm, Paul Mulroney wrote: Anyway, as I was putting this stuff on the verge, a lady drove by, stopped the car and started loading a dead Mac SE into her car. You threw out an SE? I bought one at a garage sale with Stylewriter II printer for $20. It's a collector's item! Well, it was truly dead - no hard drive, no ram, no floppy disk, no backup battery, and I don't think it actually chimed on power on either. My SE/30 is dead too (won't power on - probably the analog board), but I'm keeping that one :) Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Old computers (was Re: Voodoo Cards)
Hi All, On Thursday, June 17, 2004, at 11:16 PM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: 1 kind of worked but it gave off a rather noxious burning plastic smell then made a POP noise (literally) and died so i ended up putting it out on the verge for a curb side rubbish collection... by the time I'd turned around and got back to my front door someone had pulled up , thrown it in their car and driven off. I did the same once. When I throw a computer out on the verge, it really is dead, and it ain't coming back to life again. Anyway, as I was putting this stuff on the verge, a lady drove by, stopped the car and started loading a dead Mac SE into her car. I told her the machine is dead and it would never work again, to which she replied my son, he fix computers, he can make it go. Gotta admire her faith in her children :) I don't think I've ever had a computer on the verge actually stay there until the rubbish truck comes to pick it up. As an aside, if there are people out there throwing out older Macs, consider donating them to a charity or something. I'm involved in an organisation which is starting a program in Sri Lanka, and we're looking for computers to setup a training centre over there. If you search the wamug archives, you'll find other groups doing similar for other places. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Community Seminars
Hi All, On Friday, June 18, 2004, at 05:06 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I'm thinking of hosting 10 half hour seminars about aspects of computing in the library of the rural community where I'm staying. If there was a single topic that you'd like your parents to know about, with relation to computing, what would it be? I guess it depends on the context. I wrote a Basic Computing course which we used as part of the First Click program a year or so ago, which was 10 x 2hr sessions. That was basic navigation of the gui, and how to use a word processor - written for someone who has never seen a computer before. I then wrote a Basic Internet course, which was how to do email, surf the web, get connected to the internet, and some examples of other services like online chat etc. All fairly basic stuff. If you want to know about my parents, my mum would never get connected - she can't see the point of having a computer. My dad now has a computer and he wanted to be able to type a letter and print it, organise the letters he's created on the computer, send/receive email, and maybe calculate some figures in a spreadsheet. He used to ring me up with questions about the printer not working, not being able to understand Microsoft Word and Windows ME shudder, and to help him find files he'd lost on the machine. These days he wants to take digital photos, convert his vast collection of family snaps and slides into a digital slideshow, and maybe start messing with video editing. I told him to buy a Mac :) Hope this gives you some ideas. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: usb printer on 9.1/9.2 network
Hi Everyone, On Friday, May 14, 2004, at 05:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I have two imacs and a G3 on an ethernet. (snip) Tried turning on USB printer sharing but thought vaguely that this is actually how you drive the common printer off the network - does it install an icon on the desktop and one drag and drops to that from the remote computers? Tom Lewis, in beautiful Jervis Bay, NSW, Oz Tom, I too would like to understand the mysteries of USB Printer Sharing. I have a blue clamshell ibook (9.2.2) and want to link it to a HP 1200 laser printer, and have my g3 bronze Powerbook (9.2.2) print to it also. Reading MacHelp it says only that USB printer sharing can be done if you are on a TCP/IP network (doesn't say it can't be done on an appletalk network but doesn't say it can either). Is this true? If so, how does one tell one has set up a TCP/IP network? MacHelp is anything but. Can anyone direct me to references on how to share a USB printer on a 9.2 ethernet based network? I couldn't get it to happen though went through all the steps in the Help. No relevant refs turned up in the Apple TIL either. TIA, David I've used USB printer sharing with a Brother HL-1240 and a number of iMacs running Mac OS9. This is what I did: 1. Setup the physical network. Each iMac had an ethernet cable that went from the Mac to an ethernet hub/switch. 2. Setup the TCP/IP addresses. I allocated each computer an IP address manually. Control Panels TCP/IP. Select Configure Manually, IP address 192.168.0.x (x is different for each machine, I started from 1 eg 1,2,3,4), subnet mask 255.255.255.0. 3. Connected the USB printer to one Mac. 4. Installed the driver for the printer on all Macs on the network. 5. On each computer I turned on USB printer sharing. Control Panels USB Printer Sharing. Start/Stop tab, click on Start. 6. On the computer where the printer was connected, share the printer. Control Panels USB Printer Sharing. My Printers tab. Select the checkbox next to the printer that should be displayed there. 7. On all the other computers, connected to the shared printer. Control Panels USB Printer Sharing. Network Printers tab. If the shared printer isn't already there, click on Add to locate the printer on the network. 8. On all computers, goto the chooser and select the printer. Apple Menu Chooser. When you select the printer icon in the chooser, it should appear on the right hand side list of printers. I know this is probably an abridged version of what you need to do. I'm also sure there's a HowTo on the net somewhere, but if there isn't, this might help. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: home laser printer recommendation.
Does anybody have a recommendation (or from the retailers on list - a quote) for a small home laser printer I personally recommend Brother, I have one here in my home office that has replaced an HP 4L, I chose a HL 1440 as it has a high capacity toner unit (6000 standard A4 pages for ~$119) and the drum does ~ 20,000 pages for ~$229. The printer cost me $699, but I believe it has dropped to ~$500. For one with network look at the HL1430 at a RRP of $499 is a good buy, it has USB and Parallel interface, and has software for OsX. The Brothers are good laser printers - I have a HL1240. USB only, but if all the machines on the network are OSX (or all OS9), you can share the printer. I concur that you get excellent mileage on the drums and toner - excellent value for money. Harris Technologies sell a Samsung brand printer that looks suspiciously like the brother for a lot cheaper. Might be worth investigating. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Setting up Network printer help
Hi there, On Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at 05:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I have noticed that when the computer is started, the windows network login screen comes up and cancel is hit. Would this be turning off certain networking functions within Windows? Access to the internet via ethernet works fine. If you want networking to work on any windows box, you cannot hit cancel at the windows network login. This disables the networking for all intents and purposes. You must click OK. Do not click Cancel or the close box on the dialog. It's a common trap to the uninitiated. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Terminal FTP
Hi Reuben, On Friday, April 2, 2004, at 05:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Could someone please tell me how I can use the terminal for ftp uploading to a server for a web page? I don't really have a great deal of money to throw around at shareware products here and there and it's difficult to find a reliable freeware ftp client. For what I want to do it would work well and I'm sure it would be very reliable. I use RBrowser, which seems to work reliably for me. If you want to use the terminal, type ftp sitename, and you'll be prompted for username and password. You'll need to use commands like cd to change directories, binary to switch to binary transfer mode, get to download files and put to upload files. RBrowser is a Mac app, makes it much much easier. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Terminal FTP
Hi Ryan, On Friday, April 2, 2004, at 05:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I know. And even reliable Shareware ones seem hard to find... version 2 of 'Anarchie' was the best I've ever used, still. Shame they don't sell it anymore... 'Transmit' is very good, if a little unfinished around some edges, but at US$25 is a bit expensive for casual (student) usage. Anarchie changed name and became Interarchy. It's not free. But, it is good. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Using a G3 Powerbook on the bus
Hi Everyone On Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 05:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Anyone have experience with using laptops on the buses? I have a graphite iBook, and I used it every morning and afternoon going to and from work for two years from Bentley to West Perth. The biggest problem I had was opening the screen wide enough to be able to use it. There's not a lot of space between you and the seat in front. The seating on the newer (Renault?) buses is even more cramped, unless you can sit on the first tier up the back - then your laptop screen merely bounces off the head of the passenger in front of you :) I think the only problem you'll have is wear and tear on the screen. After doing this for a couple of years, I've found that my display goes green as I shut the lid, so I'm thinking that I'll need to get the display cable changed one day in the not-too-distant future. Oh, and maybe the cdrom drive too. I can't play DVD's in my machine anymore, probably because the chassis has twisted from being lugged about everywhere in my laptop backpack. I upgrade the drive a year ago, and DVD's started playing again, so I assume that when the technician opened it up, everything sprang back into place. YMMV Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Printer sharing
Hi All, On Saturday, March 6, 2004, at 05:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Is it possible to share a non Postscript USB printer over a local ethernet network with a router? Currently attached to a G4 running 10.3.2 networked with a G3 on 9.1. At the moment the best I can do is just transfer the files then print - it would be nice to print direct. Severin Crisp We had a similar setup: Brother HL1240 (A USB printer), shared over a network of Mac OSX 10.2 machines. Just need to turn on printer sharing in the Sharing panel in the system preferences of the Mac where the printer is connected. 10.3 might be different. Note that you cannot share the printer with Classic apps. This was a problem for us because we had a stack of Mac OS9 apps at that point. We ended up buying a networked printer instead. hth, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
For Sale: iMac DV, philips monitors
Hi Everyone, I'm selling the following in the Quokka this week, and want to give you first dibs: iMac DV 400Mhz, 320Mb RAM, 10Gb Hard disk. Mac OS9, or OSX 10.2.8 if required. All the usual stuff: keyboard, puck mouse, original disks (System CDs plus KidPix, World Book, iMovie, Pagemill, PhotoDeluxe, original packaging. Very Good condition, now just surplus to needs. $500.00. Also for sale: Philips 105S monitor, 15 SVGA, 1024x768 Philips 105MB monitor, 15 SVGA 1280x1024 Both ex-rentals. Very Good Condition. $100 each ono. Call me on 9458 3889 for more information. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Of Dodos and Penguins
Hi there, On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 05:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: We're testing a new ISP - appropriately named dodo, not penguin, as=20 iinet and westnet connection down here in Augusta is really sad. It=20 seems like a good plan at $1 for first month ($9.90 normally), plus max=20= I have a friend of mine who uses Dodo, and has an older mac running 8.1. He had heaps and heaps of problems, because of some obscure technical thing that meant he couldn't use their 1900 number to connect. To give them their dues, they basically gave him credits for the months(!) he couldn't use his account. However it took lots of calls and a very long time to find the right mac techie there who could figure it out. I tested his account from OSX, and it worked first time. My guess is it'll be fine if you're using reasonably current hardware. YMMV, Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Sharing Drives via SMB
Hi there On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 05:04 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I still havent had any luck sharing anything but my 'Home' directory with an XP box. I (almost) desperately need to share my second drive containing 22g of audio. Via Appletalk all directories are shared easily, can anyone possibly recommend an appletalk client for XP? Can anyone say wether they believe this is possible or not? At least put me out of my misery and say it CANNOT be done;o) I've done it with 10.2.8 and Win XP home edition. Things to check for: - Both machines must be on the same subnet mask. We manually assign an IP address to each machine, like 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2, etc. - Both machines must have the same workgroup name. The default for OSX is WORKGROUP. It's easier to change the XP workgroup, than to change the OSX one. It can be done, we used Sharepoints to change the workgroup on the Mac. - You must mark the directory on the XP box as shared. - You must use the username and password on the XP box when connecting from the Mac. If you really want an Appletalk client for the PC, try PCMacLan connect. I haven't seen it recently, but I downloaded a demo a while ago. It's not pretty, but it works. Hope this helps, Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Grey veil, what is it?
Hi Everyone, On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 05:07 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: A strange one! For no obvious reason a grey veil dropped down across the screen which was fully visible but muted. The computer froze and a message box, white text on black, in English, German and Japanese said that I needed to restart. A press of the restart button gave a normal restart and all seems fine. This did not look in the least like an OSX message and at first I suspected a virus or similar. Is it perhaps from Unix? Information would be most welcome! I had 4 of these events occur on my iBook between Saturday and Tuesday ... post-10.3.2 update and battery update ... and always while surfing the net in Safari. I think it is a system overload message of some kind. I started to call it THE GREY SHROUD OF DEATH ... incidentally don't you like the way it slips down the screen ... silent but deadly? On Tuesday night I reinitialised the drive, did a clean install of everything (including 10.3.2 and battery update) and have not seen the problem arise thus far (fingers crossed). Those of us with a unix background might recognise it - I believe it's Apple's version of a Kernel Panic. This is where something goes pear-shaped in the operating system, and there's no easy way to deal with it, so it just dumps it's load there and then. On a unix system, you usually get a whole stack of garbage on the screen with words like Kernel Panic, dumping 23000 pages.. I guess Apple realises that this sort of stuff is meaningless to the user and just cuts to the chase. Kernel panics are rare - or they're supposed to be. I've had maybe 5 since I first put 10.2 on my iBook two years ago. With your system the panics are probably related to the last software update. Maybe something didn't install quite right, but it didn't tell you. Here's hoping your problem's solved with a clean install. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: MPEG2 encoding to SVCD
Hi Everyone, Is there a way to create SVCD's on a Mac, without having to use the dark side? I heard that Toast will create the SVCD layout, but there must be a Mac solution to do mpeg-2 encoding. Thanks to everyone to replied to my email. After a bit of back and forth, I found a couple of solutions: For VCD's: Toast 5 will do it. VCD's are encoded as MPEG-1, which is not as high quality as SVCD's, but still quite acceptable for home use. This was the option I ended up with because of time restraints. For SVCD's: (this one I haven't tried) Toast 6 will create SVCD's, just drag and drop the quicktime movie onto Toast, and it'll do the conversion, and add it to the SVCD to burn. SVCD's are encoded as MPEG-2, which is the same as DVD's. You can only fit about 40 minutes on a SVCD. The quality is excellent - I couldn't really tell the difference between what I saw on the screen in iMovie and the resulting output from the SVCD. This is going to be the option I use in the future - Daniel has my order to Toast 6! For SVCD's: I also located some software called ffmpeg (Thanks to geoffrey richards). This software does the mpeg-2 conversion, and creates three disk images, which you then drag and drop onto Toast 5 to create a multi-session/XA format CD. I got the 30 minutes I needed onto 1 CD. It took 3 hours to encode 30 minutes of video on my 800Mhz G4 Flat Panel iMac. I found this one at the 11th hour, and managed to make one copy by the deadline. Hope others find this helpful. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
MPeg-2 encoding on the Mac
Hi Everyone, I've created a movie on my mac using iMovie 3, and now I'd like to create a SVCD (since I don't own a dvd burner, and CD's are cheap and SVCD's play on a lot of dvd players anyway). To create SVCD's you need to have a mpeg-2 encoded file. I found a solution called TMPEG ENC, but it only runs on a PC. iMovie 3 will export AVI, Quicktime Movie, mpeg-4, and DV stream (amongst others), but not mpeg-2. So, at the moment I have to export the DV stream to the PC, then use the TMPEG ENC to convert to mpeg-2, and then use Nero to create the SVCD. I saw on the Apple site that you can buy a mpeg-2 player license for quicktime, but it doesn't say that if you buy this and/or upgrade to quicktime pro that you can encode mpeg-2. Is there a way to create SVCD's on a Mac, without having to use the dark side? I heard that Toast will create the SVCD layout, but there must be a Mac solution to do mpeg-2 encoding. All help greatly appreciated, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: iMac 333 shuts down without warning
Hi There, On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:03 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Have twice now had my 333 shut down as though plug pulled after approx two hours. All peripherals remain on. Once shut down will not power up again for long time - usually left until next day. Any help please? I had this happen to my iMac too. I discovered that the power cord had worked it's way loose, and so the machine just appeared to go dead. I pushed the cord back in, and the problem went away. Check the power cord? Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: One nail to go...
Hi Everyone, On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 05:02 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Anyone tried Bochs? Yes. It's a dog. Don't touch it - it doesn't work half as good as VPC. I'd regard it as alpha quality - don't rely on it for anything important. That was 6 months or so ago (v1.5.1) , maybe things have changed since then. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Jude's iMac Woes
Hi Reg, On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 05:01 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Can you help please? A friend has somehow crashed her iMac (OS X 10.2.x). On restart she gets the Apple icon and then spinning icon, but spinning never stops. How long should she need to wait? More than 30 minutes? She has restarted with mouse down to open CD tray and inserted OS X install disk to do disk first aid, however the same thing happens: spinning icon but nothing else. How long should she wait? Can somebody help please? She awaits your response, using husband's PC for internet access. When you restart the Mac, are you holding down the C key? Otherwise it will still try to boot off the main drive and not the CDROM. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Mac OS X OpenOffice
Hi Everyone, On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 05:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at the downloads that were available on the wamug site and I and noticed that OpenOffice was there. As it is a fairly big download at 170 MB, I thought I would ask the opinion of those who have tried it out to give me some feedback as to if it is worth getting. If this is the latest version which was released recently, then I can tell you that it's not fast, but it is very functional. Much better than the previous (alpha) release. The GUI still uses X-windows, so you need to have either Apple's X11 software , or XDarwin/OroborusX installed. I opted for Apple's X11 software. The setup of printers is a bit strange - you need to define the printer within Open Office before you can print. The word processor is functional (including the annoying office helper), the spreadsheet is also operational. It appears to handle documents created by Word and Excel just fine. pluses: more features than Appleworks. minuses: requires a bit more tech to get it working, non-Aqua interface. Hope this is useful. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Mac OS X OpenOffice
Hi Everyone I was looking at the downloads that were available on the wamug site and I and noticed that OpenOffice was there. As it is a fairly big download at 170 MB, I thought I would ask the opinion of those who have tried it out to give me some feedback as to if it is worth getting. It's not bad, but its not all that great either. For the price, you can't beat it. On another side to this,..if you were looking for something a little better, then consider checking out ThinkFree Office. It's not free, but at $99 it's actually pretty good for a replacement to Microsoft Office. It handles Word, Excel and Powerpoint in their native file formats so it reads and writes to them in their own language. (It even includes the .doc and .xls suffix when you save!) It works on Macs (OS9 and X), Windows and even Linux. I looked at ThinkFree office some time ago, and it was much slower on my poor Mac than OpenOffice is. Also, ThinkFree didn't offer features like table of contents and indexes, which I absolutely need for the documentation that I created. For simple stuff, it works great. YMMV Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Seting up Bigpond (or what size hammer do I need?)
Hi All, On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 07:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody tell me or show me with screen shots how to configure the network and Internet Connect settings (and anything else I need) for Telstra Broadband. Look in the Help Folder section of the July Australian MacWorld which detail the operation. Despite what Telstra says, it is possible to get onto broadband with Mac OSX 10.2. Their example was using ADSL via the ethernet connection, so YMMV. In a nutshell for those who don't have the magazine handy: 1. Make sure any unnecessary network ports such as the internal modem are turned off in the Network pane of System Preferences. To get to this section of the Network pane, choose Network Port Configuration in the Show menu, then deselect all but Built-in ethernet in the list of displayed ports. 2. Select Build-in ethernet from the Show menu, and go to the PPPoE tab and tick the Connect using PPPoE checkbox. 3. Enter your ADSL username (in the Account Name field) and your password, and tick the Save password checkbox. If you'd like to control the connection via the menu, tick Show PPPoE status in menu bar as well. 4. Click on the PPPoE Options button, and tick the appropriate options. The screen shot has Connect automaticallly when needed, Disconnect when user logs out and Send PPP echo packets ticked, and all the others are not ticked. Click on OK to close the dialog. 5. Click on the TCP/IP tab and make sure the configure popup menu has Using PPP selected, and make sure the Search Domains box has wa.bigpond.net.au, or nsw.bigpond.net.au (etc). Leave the DNS Servers box empty. 6. Click Apply Now, and test the connection by firing up your browser. Personally I don't use Bigpond, so I don't know if the above is correct, but it looks OK based on what I know of ADSL connection setups. HTH, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Help - Sick SE 30!
Hi Everyone, On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 08:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, it's a long way from the new G5s I know, but my faithful old SE30 seems to be at deaths door. When it's switched on, the screen shows up a whole bunch of horizontal stripes - and nothing else. I can hear the hard disk clicking away, so I don't think the disk has died. Anybody have any ideas??? Exactly the same thing happened to me a couple of months ago. I pulled out the machine again the other day and it was still doing it. I think maybe the motherboard has died - I know that certain systems like the Mac IIci's had capacitors on the circuit boards that all started failing a couple of years back. None of those machines work anymore. I hope I'm wrong, because I really loved my SE/30 too. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Alternatives to entourage and mail
Hi All, On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 03:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However it does throw up an interesting question as far as I am concerned - what do all you Mac users on the list use for e-mail? Other then Eudora or Entourage/Outlook I didn¹t think there was much available other than some of the others I asked about. Other sources seem to think PowerMail , Mailsmith Gyaz mail are all pretty good, when compared to Mail or other mainstream clients. I used to use Outlook Express (OS9) for ages, but found some strange networking problems when I moved to OSX. I currently use Mail, but I'm not that impressed with it. It doesn't handle IMAP folders as well as OE did. I tried Entourage, but it is much slower on my graphite iBook than the Mail app. Maybe someone would like to create a yahoo group poll on the mail apps to see which one is the most widely used... Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Alternatives to entourage and mail
On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 07:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe someone would like to create a yahoo group poll on the mail apps to see which one is the most widely used... Well, a brief analysis of my WAMUG mail reveals the following information from X-Mailer headers. Note that this is 'number of posts' not 'number of people using'. very big snip 1 AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 Made me smile :) What I'd be interested in knowing is - how'd you create that list? Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Flat panel iMac freezing
Hi All, Some of you may recall I mentioned two meetings ago about my Flat-panel iMac freezing sometimes. Well, I took into an Apple Service agent, and found out that the mouse was faulty. With a new mouse, everything is back to normal. Thanks to all those who replied to my emails. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
iMac DV display problem
Hi All, Thanks for the help with the flat panel iMac problem. Now for the (much) harder question. I went to install Mac OS X 10.2 on my iMac DV (slot loading 400Mhz G3). It installed OK, and I was really impressed with the new features etc. I shutdown the machine, and when I started it up in the morning, the display was all funny. It was an unnatural blue color, and the right hand side of the display was all jagged, and the left hand side seemed to bow inward. After a restart or two the geometry seemed to go back to normal, but the colors seemed to smear to the right. While I could still see a little of the desktop, I switched back to booting Mac OS 9, and checked the monitors control panel. The contrast was wound up to the max. I reset it back to about the middle, but things stil weren't quite right. After a restart or two later, the display wouldn't startup at all, even though you could hear the hard disk startup, and it responded to pressing the shutdown key on the keyboard. I connected a spare PC SVGA monitor to the external SVGA output, but I think I must need a multi-sync monitor, because something displayed on the external monitor, but it was all out of sync. I rang one apple shop, who said the analog power supply board was dead, and that it'd cost $800 approx. to replace. They said that they've seen a few of these recently. I rang another apple shop, who said that it was a firmware problem, and that updating the firmware had fixed it for other machines they've looked at recently. On the Low End Mac website, there's references to iMacs of about this vintage having problems with the display. I find it a strange co-incidence that it happens immediately after an install of OS X on the machine. Could this be a firmware problem? Has anyone experienced this before? All suggestions appreciated Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Airport Antennas
Hi All, At the last WAMUG meeting someone asked about airport antennas to increase the range. Well, I found this: In my efforts to add the words wireless savvy to my network admin resume, I've been reading books and web pages on radio propagation, antenna theory and design, and building wireless networks with 802.11. One of the first things that got me excited was the Pringles Can Antenna. Published on the internet and in a fine book by Rob Flickenger, the net admin for O'Reilly, this design for a do-it-yourself, VERY inexpensive antenna made from a recycled junkfood container is as cool as the other side of the pillow. It seems that everyone is building and using these. The various community wireless network groups all talk about them and folks are reporting that they do the job. http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Flat panel iMac freezing
Hi All, At the last WAMUG meeting, I asked a question about my new iMac. Sometimes, the mouse freezes when you click on something, and you have to power off and then power on again. At the meeting someone said that there was a known issue with the hardware in some of the earlier models of the flat-panel iMac. I rang and used my Extended AppleCare support for the first time, and 4 calls later I'm starting to get really miffed with the its the software! line that they keep telling me. I followed the support line's suggestions, and have (I think) narrowed it down to something that's killing the USB mouse driver, because the rest of the machine seems to keep working - you just can't click on anything... I've tried reformatting the hard drive, and then tried again with the Zero All Data option as the support line suggested. I've tried updating my third party drivers (only the Brother Laser (USB) printer HL1240 driver), and disabling the rest. I can live without all the other peripherals, but I cannot live without the printer. I've tried unplugging all other USB devices except for the printer, keyboard and mouse. I've tried disabling all the 3rd party extensions by selecting Mac OS 9.2.2 All in the extension set. So, here are my questions: 1. Does anyone know for sure if there's a hardware issue, and if so, is there some reference that you can quote me so that I can tell them the next time I ring. 2. Does anyone else use the Brother HL1240 laser printer and Mac OS 9.2.2? Has it ever frozen the mouse for you? 3. Does anyone have any suggestions about what I can do next? I really like the machine, but it's a $3.5k lemon if it keeps freezing on me. I am tempted to return it for an exchange or refund. All help appreciated, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
Re: Ethernet Hubs
on 1/7/02 11:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am considering a 12 to 16 port ethernet hub to connect a small network of Macintosh computers and some peripherals. Does anybody have any particular recommendations, or alternatively, any brands to stay right away from? I have heard that DLink gear is to be steered away from. But they apparently have good support in WA, because lots of people have to keep returning the gear. That may only apply to more high-end equipment such as routers and switches though. I have a Bay Networks/Netgear hub and I'm more than happy with it. Nice sturdy blue metal box. I've bought a D-Link 5 port 100BaseT switch, and it's worked fine. I've been more than happy with the price and performance of it. I know a lot of people who use Netgear equipment, which also appears to work fine. Regards, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney Logical Developments [EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102 Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
